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Policy updates freezing terminal servers

Lately it seems anytime you change a policy in SEC (5.2) and push it out to hosts, terminal servers experience freeze-ups. So far remotely running taskkill against savservice.exe releases the system, but this is a huge issue for us. We have 100s of users on terminal servers and can have them freezing up with every policy update.  

might be especially related to DLP module, but that is just a gut feeling.

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  • Are the appropriate exclusions in place on the systems? Do the systems have sufficient resources available to handle the load?

    I have come across this one a few times (mostly on older laptops) - and in each case it was either poor disk performance, lack of memory, or hardware faults. I have never seen this occur across any of the server fleet or modern endpoint hardware (laptops / desktops / virtuals).

    I know that for the firewall configuration during a policy update, it will temporarily remove all rules and re-add them as per the policy configuration. I am however not sure of the process for antivirus. If suddenly the same behaviour occurs on antivirus, and a high-I/O application that is heavily using the disk is active (and usually has exclusion) - it might temporarily lose that exclusion, and result in the file being scanned. Just a theory, but always something worth investigating.

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  • Are the appropriate exclusions in place on the systems? Do the systems have sufficient resources available to handle the load?

    I have come across this one a few times (mostly on older laptops) - and in each case it was either poor disk performance, lack of memory, or hardware faults. I have never seen this occur across any of the server fleet or modern endpoint hardware (laptops / desktops / virtuals).

    I know that for the firewall configuration during a policy update, it will temporarily remove all rules and re-add them as per the policy configuration. I am however not sure of the process for antivirus. If suddenly the same behaviour occurs on antivirus, and a high-I/O application that is heavily using the disk is active (and usually has exclusion) - it might temporarily lose that exclusion, and result in the file being scanned. Just a theory, but always something worth investigating.

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